1) problem description, brief discussion
Several different security vulnerabilities were found in the PNG
library which is used by applications to support the PNG image format.
A remote attacker is able to execute arbitrary code by triggering a
buffer overflow due to the incorrect handling of the length of
transparency chunk data and in other pathes of image processing.
(VU#388984, VU#817368, CAN-2004-0597)
A special PNG image can be used to cause an application crashing due
to NULL pointer dereference in the function png_handle_iCPP() (and
other locations). (VU#236656, CAN-2004-0598)
Integer overflows were found in png_handle_sPLT(), png_read_png()
functions and other locations. These bugs may at least crash an
application. (VU#160448, VU#477512, VU#286464, CAN-2004-0599)
Many thanks to Chris Evans who reported issues to us and other vendors.
3) special instructions and notes
Various applications use libpng either dynamically linked, statically
linked, or by linking a copy of libpng included in the application's
source distribution.
In the first case you have to restart the affected application.
In the other cases we will release updates for these packages if the
vulnerable libpng code is called with input from an untrusted source.
4) package location and checksums
Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
the update.
Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
are being offered to install from the maintenance web.
x86 Platform:
SUSE Linux 9.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/i586/libpng-1.2.5-182.7.i586.rpm
0e89a04a0a50a49f756795bbd319e1dd
patch rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/i586/libpng-1.2.5-182.7.i586.patch.rpm
dc7270f4c0c728c3ba7252d0a551e437
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/src/libpng-1.2.5-182.7.src.rpm
bb8d8000a010d92747dda1b0908d41aa
SUSE Linux 9.0:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586/libpng-1.2.5-191.i586.rpm
5b34c70a715cd34bb0e5879063dcf63b
patch rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586/libpng-1.2.5-191.i586.patch.rpm
6c192934eae546bc1f2c9b7980c848f0
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/rpm/src/libpng-1.2.5-191.src.rpm
c740a8c8c6188470512c91ec8e9e70a9
SUSE Linux 8.2:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/libpng-1.2.5-191.i586.rpm
64d76d67104123317c4a66a0721072e8
patch rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/libpng-1.2.5-191.i586.patch.rpm
372b2eae57ff3ff90ad1250e8a2d3a91
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/src/libpng-1.2.5-191.src.rpm
16dde1bf26f8c9c006ccad4779d138d7
SUSE Linux 8.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/libpng-1.2.4-115.i586.rpm
88dc17c0edccfcd65fea3539379de370
patch rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/libpng-1.2.4-115.i586.patch.rpm
24d8632e5454e46ce4623c5a672a3d5d
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/src/libpng-1.2.4-115.src.rpm
e3086525ee914ddc5dc0c7da7ab96a25
SUSE Linux 8.0:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/gra1/libpng-2.1.0.12-169.i386.rpm
09b22a2fab61b1018ce73e2965777123
patch rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/gra1/libpng-2.1.0.12-169.i386.patch.rpm
097de7e1c11106390128b6996041fe3c
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/libpng-2.1.0.12-169.src.rpm
9e1da14f139fc4dcf481cdf836397da7
x86-64 Platform:
SUSE Linux 9.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.1/rpm/x86_64/libpng-1.2.5-182.7.x86_64.rpm
c6c0f425059cf94803952530f0e9ba02
patch rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.1/rpm/x86_64/libpng-1.2.5-182.7.x86_64.patch.rpm
01814d5c445560c6bcca0f1d9221e5be
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.1/rpm/src/libpng-1.2.5-182.7.src.rpm
27c4236b2ca11a760b3028c5058db7cf
SUSE Linux 9.0:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.0/rpm/x86_64/libpng-1.2.5-191.x86_64.rpm
5e8c7dcfe20c386150c4129bb549569f
patch rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.0/rpm/x86_64/libpng-1.2.5-191.x86_64.patch.rpm
4fc9a5a29f5c813b32b9dee230250b17
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.0/rpm/src/libpng-1.2.5-191.src.rpm
526c0048344f1aa467903b1a8bce3506
______________________________________________________________________________
5) Pending vulnerabilities in SUSE Distributions and Workarounds:
- mod_ssl
A remotely exploitable format string bug has been found in the
logging function of mod_ssl.
New packages are available at our FTP servers.
- lha
A source code review of lha was conducted by the SuSE Security-Team
to fix all possible buffer overflows.
New packages are available at our FTP servers.
- gfxboot/bootsplash-theme-SuSE/bootsplash-theme-SuSE-Home
A bug in gfxboot on SUSE LINUX 9.1 caused the lilo boot password
to be shown in cleartext while typing.
The standard boot loader is grub.
New packages are available at our FTP servers.
- liby2util
File names of patch files are no longer passed to gpg via the
system() call. Since those file names are not protected by a digital
signature, an attacker could previously manage to implant shell
code.
New packages are available at our FTP servers.
- pure-ftpd
This update fixes a possible DoS attack because of a bug in the
accept_client function handling the setup of new connections.
New packages are available at our FTP servers.
- neon
This update adds a missing filter for control characters.
New packages are available at our FTP servers.
- pavuk
This update fixes several buffer overflows in pavuk's digest
authentication support. Thanks to Matthew Murphy for reporting
this issue to us.
New packages are available at our FTP servers.
- sox
Several buffer overflows in the 'sox' and 'play' have been fixed that
can be exploited by playing specially crafted .wav files. (CAN-2004-0557)
New packages are available at our FTP servers.
- gaim
The SuSE Security Team discovers various remotely exploitable buffer
overflows in the MSN-protocol parsing functions of gaim. The only
affected product is SUSE LINUX 9.1.
New packages will be available soon. (CAN-2004-0500)
- kernel
Paul Starzetz from iSEC informed us about a race condition in the 64bit
file offset handling code of the kernel.
New kernels for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 are available from
the maintenance-web. The updates for the SUSE LINUX 9.1 kernels are
available from our FTP servers.
Kernel update packages for older SUSE LINUX distributions will be
available in the next few days and will be announced with a dedicated
advisory.
______________________________________________________________________________
6) standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information
- Package authenticity verification:
SUSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
file or rpm package:
1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.
1) execute the command
md5sum <name-of-the-file.rpm>
after you downloaded the file from a SUSE ftp server or its mirrors.
Then, compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the
announcement. Since the announcement containing the checksums is
cryptographically signed (usually using the key security@suse.de),
the checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package.
We disrecommend to subscribe to security lists which cause the
email message containing the announcement to be modified so that
the signature does not match after transport through the mailing
list software.
Downsides: You must be able to verify the authenticity of the
announcement in the first place. If RPM packages are being rebuilt
and a new version of a package is published on the ftp server, all
md5 sums for the files are useless.
2) rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity
of an rpm package. Use the command
rpm -v --checksig <file.rpm>
to verify the signature of the package, where <file.rpm> is the
filename of the rpm package that you have downloaded. Of course,
package authenticity verification can only target an un-installed rpm
package file.
Prerequisites:
a) gpg is installed
b) The package is signed using a certain key. The public part of this
key must be installed by the gpg program in the directory
~/.gnupg/ under the user's home directory who performs the
signature verification (usually root). You can import the key
that is used by SUSE in rpm packages for SUSE Linux by saving
this announcement to a file ("announcement.txt") and
running the command (do "su -" to be root):
gpg --batch; gpg < announcement.txt | gpg --import
SUSE Linux distributions version 7.1 and thereafter install the
key "build@suse.de" upon installation or upgrade, provided that
the package gpg is installed. The file containing the public key
is placed at the top-level directory of the first CD (pubring.gpg)
and at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/pubring.gpg-build.suse.de .
- SUSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may
subscribe:
suse-security@suse.com
- general/linux/SUSE security discussion.
All SUSE security announcements are sent to this list.
To subscribe, send an email to
<suse-security-subscribe@suse.com>.
suse-security-announce@suse.com
- SUSE's announce-only mailing list.
Only SUSE's security announcements are sent to this list.
To subscribe, send an email to
<suse-security-announce-subscribe@suse.com>.
For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq)
send mail to:
<suse-security-info@suse.com> or
<suse-security-faq@suse.com> respectively.
====================================================================
SUSE's security contact is <security@suse.com> or <security@suse.de>.
The <security@suse.de> public key is listed below.
====================================================================
______________________________________________________________________________
The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced,
provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. In particular,
it is desired that the clear-text signature shows proof of the
authenticity of the text.
SUSE Linux AG makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect
to the information contained in this security advisory.
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